Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Aria Trivedi is a biology major with a minor in biotechnology, and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

New drug approvals by Health Canada are based on the results of clinical trials. But before clinical trials can go ahead, ...

Welcome to CU Boulder's Institutional Review Board (IRB) website. Here, you will find everything you need to submit a human subjects research study for ethical review.

Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly introduced a regulation that may be one of the most important shifts in how non-profit and for-profit U.S. institutions, both at ...

Many biomedical and social-behavioral research studies require the participation of human volunteers. These studies must be reviewed by a committee called an Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB ...

Eberts serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit 1Day Sooner. Fisher is a professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina Center for Bioethics. For decades, the consensus ...

The rise in virtual research since the COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for researchers to expand and diversify ...

Research on human brain organoids (HBOs) is directly challenging how biobanks and biomedical institutes recruit volunteers.